Word: sacking
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Fortunately the rumor, like the original report, was an exaggeration. Only a few Americans, including T. F. Bridgers, a North Carolina goober grower who sent a 100-pound sack, had responded with small shipments. Meantime the elephants' trunks were responding nicely to buns and radio therapy...
...when a knock summoned him to the door. Outside stood a beautiful Jewess with four armed Yemenite Jews. They threw Collins to the floor, slapped a chloroform-soaked rag against his face. The beautiful Jewess screamed, "Take him to the cemetery." The four men crammed him into a gunny sack, fled...
...jittery; it expected clashes and cracked skulls. But at Smithfield (meat), at Billingsgate (fish), at Covent Garden (vegetables), the strikers stood aside, watching placidly, but with professional scorn, as the soldiers inexpertly tugged and hauled unaccustomed burdens. Sighed one striking porter as a young Coldstream Guardsman struggled with a sack of potatoes: "He'll rupture hisself if he don't watch...
Talk for Hepcats. It was quite a "sack of jack," Robbins conceded, for the law graduate who seven years ago took an an-.. nouncing job with Baltimore's WITH at $17.50 a week. And every cent of it had been hard-earned. Like Walter Winchell and the late Damon Runyon, Robbins had almost singlehanded created his own "language," and built his audience by teaching it to them (see box). He started with a few scattered scat idioms picked up from jazzmen, rapidly invented new ones on principles of alliteration, assonance and (occasionally) metaphor...
...Kern's avuncular concern over his arranger's problem daughter-seem to have been no bigger than a man's hand, and just about as unusual. But for those who like popular music and attractive entertainers, the story will be no more troublesome than a sack race: the movie gets there just the same...